The logician and the engineer: how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age
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1. Verfasser: Nahin, Paul J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press c2013
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Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later? In The Logician and the Engineer, best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin combines engaging problems and a colorful historical narrative to tell the remarkable story of how two men in different eras--mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) an
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 228 p)
ISBN:9781283578783
9781400844654
DOI:10.1515/9781400844654

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